Democrats notched double-digit wins in New Jersey and Virginia, plus gains in New York City and California, powered by strong Latino support, exit polls show. Two-thirds of Latino voters backed Democratic gubernatorial candidates, including many Latino men, reversing some of Trump’s gains. In New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill beat Jack Ciattarelli...
Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to restrict President Donald Trump from launching an attack on Venezuela, defeating the measure 49-51 as only Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski crossed the aisle. The vote came amid a growing U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean, including an advanced aircraft carrier, and a...
On Fox News, President Donald Trump dismissed a supporter's plea about rising living costs, insisting prices, especially energy, are way down, though he said beef still needs to fall. He argued Republicans fail to talk about affordability and accused Democrats of lying about it. While gas averages are lower than...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump’s plan requiring passport applicants to list the sex on their birth certificate, overturning a lower court pause. The 6-3 order, not a final ruling, lets the policy take effect while litigation proceeds. Plaintiffs led by transgender man Ashton Orr say the...
California voters approved a new congressional map, the most significant Democratic response yet to Trump’s push to redraw districts before 2026. The plan could tilt five U.S. House seats toward Democrats and was passed by public vote, sidelining the state’s commission. Trump’s redistricting drive has already produced GOP advantages in...
On a day defined by the shutdown, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits by Friday, saying partial payments ignored real harm. The Supreme Court allowed enforcement of a passport policy limiting gender markers while the case proceeds. The FAA is imposing 10% air...
California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 50, a Democratic-friendly redistricting plan, with about 64% of 8.3 million ballots cast. The maps, designed to unseat five GOP incumbents starting in 2026, could erase Republicans’ narrow House edge and stall President Trump’s agenda. The defeat ignited Republican infighting: Assemblyman Carl DeMaio urged state...
Senate leaders inched toward votes to end the shutdown as negotiators huddled again Thursday, eyeing a plan to pair a short-term stopgap with a bipartisan funding package and a set date for a vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. But key rifts remain over the subsidies and how...
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to host white nationalist Nick Fuentes, calling it a mistake. In leaked town hall footage, he said he knew little about Fuentes and that a now resigned chief of staff scripted his post. Roberts condemned Fuentes’s antisemitic...
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board dismissed Donald Trump’s claim he wasn’t to blame for the GOP’s rout, citing double-digit defeats in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City and warning of “bigger problems in 2026.” Democrats exceeded polls as Governors-Elect Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill won, with Virginia’s “tsunami”...
